{"data":{"id":"us-vt/12-v.s.a.-4714","jurisdiction":"us-vt","citation":"12 V.S.A. § 4714","heading":"Fiduciaries; executors","body":"A person interested as or through an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, or other fiduciary, creditor, devisee, legatee, heir, next of kin, or cestui que trust, in the administration of a trust, or of the estate of a decedent, an infant, a person lacking mental capacity, or a person without financial resources, may have a declaration of rights or legal relations in respect thereto:\n(1) to ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin, or others; or\n(2) to direct the executors, administrators, or trustees to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity; or\n(3) to determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings.","path":["Title 12: Court Procedure","Chapter 167: Declaratory Judgments Act"],"source_url":"https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/12/167/04714","current_through":"2025 session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T16:47:27Z","sha256":"807845d0124be06f0472f9de2977b399e8fd5dabd414517f206017b1ea520867","source_id":"us-vt","stale":false,"prev":"us-vt/12-v.s.a.-4713","next":"us-vt/12-v.s.a.-4715"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}